>Thus spake Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I am trying to create one sysctl so that I can read information >>from a lottery scheduler that I am trying to write. >> The sysctl is very very simple. I add a lottery node under kern >>then add a member global_tickets under kern.lottery. Very simple stuff >>that is not working. >> > >FYI, lottery scheduling has already been implemented at least >twice for FreeBSD. For an example, see > > http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/computing/software/lottery-sched.html > >The code has not been maintained, > FYI, I wanted to have a look, but it appears that both a link to source code http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dpetrou/code/freebsd_lottery_code.tar.gz and to accompanying paper http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dpetrou/papers/freebsd_lottery_writeup98.ps do not work ...
> apparently due to a lack of >interest, and it incurs a high scheduling overhead. Note that the KSE >work is likely to bring significant changes to scheduling in FreeBSD, >possibly causing you headaches later. You might also be interested in >Luigi's work on a PS scheduler; check the list archives. > Regards, Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
